Cupral 2017

IJCNLP 2017 Workshop on Curation and Applications of Parallel and Comparable Corpora

November 27, 2017

Taipei, Taiwan

Monday, November 27, 2017


9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks, Haithem Afli

9:30-10:15 Invited Talk

Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla (Microsoft): Leveraging Parallel and Comparable Corpora for Multilingual NLP


10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and Networking

11:00-12:30 Presentations


11:00-11:30 Learning Phrase Embeddings from Paraphrases with GRUs

Zhihao Zhou, Lifu Huang and Heng Ji


11:30-12:00 MultiNews: A Web collection of an Aligned Multimodal and Multilingual Corpus

Haithem Afli, Pintu Lohar and Andy Way


12:00-12:30 Building a Better Bitext for Structurally Different Languages through Self-training

Jungyeul Park, Loic Dugast, Jeen-Pyo Hong, Chang-Uk Shin and Jeong-Won Cha

12:30 Closing